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[Vibrant General] kizer:
Is it just me or is anybody elses Antenna Strength all over the place. I almost feel like I purchased a new iPhone 4 with an antenna problem. I'm not sure if its my local tower or what. I can put the phone on the table and watch the strength max out then I can pick it up and watch it dance around from full to well nothing.

Take my fingers off the chrome outer ring and balance the phone on my palm and watch the strength climb.

It was delivered today, so I haven't really played with it a lot. I can tell you that my 3G signal is horrid, but was fine on my G1. Its almost like I gained an awesome screen and lost signal in the process.

I am inside, but never noticed that kind of activity at all with my G1.
[Vibrant General] dublued:
Play around with it a little more and see if it has any effect on your calls. Don't judge purely on the signal bars.

The bad 3g reception you mention is concerning though.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
The bars are -15dBm off to actual reception.
[Vibrant General] ArcticWolf91:
Yes, my signal strength seems to jump all over the place as well. Hope it can be fixed with a software update.
[Vibrant General] smolomiami:
some thing here im about to get new one maybe tomorrow
[Vibrant General] temperbad:
of course were not 100% sure yet but we think the bars aren't reading correctly although covering the bottom of the phone were the antenna is there will naturally be signal loss does it on my tp2 as we'll...
[Vibrant General] skater4690:
i have the same problem its weird but manageable i tested my phone to the iphone 4 and my phone loads web pages faster streams videos from the internet faster and connects to youtube through the youtube app to play videos faster and seems to be faster all together only downside is the iphone 4 has the ffc and higher resolution but thats it i can deal without that :D
[Vibrant General] southpaw773:
i always say forget the bars, can you make a call Lol
[Vibrant General] spigatelli:
I have been making calls on mine while showing zero bars. No real reception issue. I just ignore the bars.
[Vibrant General] WilliamStern:
Yeah, don't go by the bars at all with this phone. Like above, I've had zero bars, and no issues here with calls or browsing the web.
[Vibrant General] unxconformed:
I wouldn't ignore it completely...

I've had a few dropped calls now from the attenuation and frequently have my data freeze up on me when I hold the phone. The signal isn't terrible where I live, I never had dropped calls on my G1 or my Wizard in this location.

Unfortunately it isn't something that is fixable, it's just crummy placement of the antenna.
[Vibrant General] NickAtNite:
I held the phone in a death grip with my right hand until it displayed no bars, but it didn't seems affect my 3g. I did a speed test and I got 1.25mbps down and 0.3mbps up, which is pretty normal in my area. I did a second test holding it with my left hand and I got 0.99mbps down and 0.25mbps up. A third run while covering it up with both hands did have an affect, but who really does that? It showed 0.6mbps down and 0.15mbps up.

I haven't tried calling anyone under those same conditions, so I don't know if anything is going on there..
[Captivate General] slimmer1890:
Is anyone else having problems with the Media Player. I put a bunch of music on there and when I go into the music player alot of times it will freeze, there is pretty bad lag when scrolling through albums in landscape mode, and most of the time it force quits on me. Anyone else having any of these problems, and is there a better media player you guys could recomend? This is my first android so I have no clue about apps yet. Thanks in advance.
[Captivate General] Citznfish:
How is this supposed to work? If my PC ( win7 64bit ) is on and I have enabled streaming ( I currently can stream to my PS3 in another part of the house) i should be able to see my files on the phone and stream from the PC to my phone, right?

Unfortunately i don't see any media servers listed. This is with the phones wifi turned on or off.

Has anyone else gotten All Share to work?
[Captivate General] dsjr2006:
Work on my Macbook
[Captivate General] chvybeatsford:
Works on my un55c6500.
[Captivate General] systoxity:
is ur comp set up ok? and i've only streamed from phone to comp and tv not vise versa.
[Captivate General] Citznfish:
yes. but maybe it only goes from teh phone to the computer? Not sure...
[Captivate General] ghostedge:
I'm also having trouble getting Allshare to play media from my pc (win7 x64, running PS3 Media Server). I can see the server and files on the phone, but they won't play, even transcoded ones.
[Captivate General] saint168:
Works for me connecting to a Vista machine.
[Captivate General] pjs2004:
Works fine for me on W7 64bit. I'm using windows media player to serve. It's pretty fast too and great quality. I jumped around on the videos and it buffered pretty fast and without any problems. I'm liking it a lot. The only trick is sorting out which videos are playable. It doesn't like certain codecs.
[Captivate General] Gleamingwolf:
So how do you get it to work? It sees my shared drive on my computer but no files come up.
[Captivate General] jblparisi:
Same here, any luck?
[Captivate General] cliffgardner:
Same issue, same setup.
[G1 Apps and Games] captinamerica:
Hey guys,

I'm looking for a program that will allow me to add peoples numbers in my call log to an appointment in my calendar. I would like to be able to long press and select add to calendar or something o that effect. I get tons of call for apartments and it's really a pain having to copy and paste the number every time. I would also like some time of program that will make appointments from the conversation I'm having over the phone. I thought I remembered something like that for BB a while back and I was wondering if there is something for Android. I have looked in the market place for apps like these but have found nothing. Can you guys suggest any or maybe someone wants to build one :). These would be great apps for people like me who get tons of phone calls and need to set appointments.

Thanks :)
[G1 Apps and Games] daylate:
same here,but for WM...
[Vibrant General] S4X:
Initially all worked OK. But then after some installs from the Market i am not able to do that

Here are some facts:

- i see the drive letters assigned for both of them on PC but when you click Explore the message is "Please insert a disk into drive M: (or N or whatever)".

- They are shown as mounted on the phone . Dismount and mount again changes nothing

- the phone is recording photos/videos OK on internal memory means flash is working fine.

- SD card is perfectly working too. if you extract it and put into computer you can read/write it. On the cell you can play music from it etc no problems

- I restored everything with Factory Data Reset but things did not change

- Same story from another PC

Is this some driver problem ? Or flash memory is locked by Vibrant OS?

I suspect EasyTether or PDANet third party driver for Samsung phones is responsible.

Tethering works though
[Vibrant General] gravis86:
It's probably one of your 3rd party apps. Mine works fine.
[Vibrant General] S4X:
Isn't it strange that combination of cell factory reset + another fresh PC does not work?
[Vibrant General] BritCrit:
S4X, I had the same issue this morning. I was performing a data transfer and had a error message (from computer). From that point forward my phone was no longer able to mount the internal storage, external micro sd card. The only portion of space that was recognized was the dedicated internal app space. Wiping the phone failed to repair the issue. I took it my local tmobile store and they immediately swapped it for a new one. No hassle no fuss. I hope these are isolated incidents. So far my new new phone is working great.

I'd recommend a return.

I should note, my phone was not rooted and I did not have either PDAnet or Easytether installed.
[Vibrant General] wease:
Same problem here, have not fixed problem yet. looks like it's getting replaced tomorrow.
[Vibrant General] S4X:
I afraid i will return it then ones per week
[Vibrant General] BritCrit:
Sorry to hear about your troubles, I'm keeping an eye on it. If it happens again I'll post something. In the meantime, I'm avoiding any multi-gig file transfers. I'm hoping we're just two unlucky owners and this is not a wider issue. Otherwise, I love the phone.
[Vibrant General] Arr MiHardies:
try turning on development mode. With that off, my mac wont see my vibrant at all. turn it on, and everything shows up.
[Vibrant General] larryccf:
i think easytether caused the issue

i couldn't get pdanet to work, they didn't have the correct samsung driver, so i unistalled pdanet from my laptop

installed easy tether yesterday - had a heck of time getting the driver to install

then tonite, like you said, couldn't get the laptop to recognize the phone,

uninstalled easytether, re-installed, and actually did it a few times tonite - took about an hour to get my laptop connection working

the hardware recognized changed from Samsung T959, to CDX morem something, and finally when on the last attempt it was recognized as an "android ADB device" and i let windows auto install the driver, it's now working

really think it's easytether and that driver not being stable

i'm on a windows xp w/sp2
[Vibrant General] S4X:
Thanks for responds guys but happily after billions of different attempts the problem is solved.

I still can not understand how these changes to the phone happened. Probably some installed software changed in Vibrant something.

Anyway, here it is, it's very simple, but this has an additional step to what it was before nevertheless. After usual USB cable connection and confirmation of using the phone as a mass storage device on the phone popped up menu (if you've made this selection on the phone settings), say into Voice dialer: "Open SD Card", and when new screen appears, click "Enable USB mass storage"

I can also post the way i tether if you like. It works fine like it works fine with EVO for example. T959 is recognized well

As you know compared to EVO and other phones the Vibrant/Samsung Galaxy S only requires one more step before installation of application on your PC: it needs Samsung own USB driver.

So you get from Market and install application on your cell; download driver from the web and install on PC; download and install application on PC.

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Here are some details for those who never tried tether and might need step-by-step instructions:

Step 1) Get and install PdaNet or EasyTether from Market on your cell phone and in Settings/Applications/Development check ON "USB debugging"

Step 2) Download and install USB driver for Samsung cellphones on your PC. Same driver works for both PdaNet or EasyTether applications. I took it from (i am new user at XDA and am not allowed to post the links) www (dot) mobile-stream (dot) com/easytether/android (dot) html

Step 3) Google, download and install PdaNet or EasyTether ( i usePdaNet, it has Bluetooth data connection option also) on your PC. During installation the application will find that the driver is already installed and will ask you what to do, you answer NO to reinstall

When you will need Internet connection:

a) Connect Vibrant and PC using USB cable

b) Launch PdaNet on Vibrant, push button "Connect"

c) if you set up not automatically connect then click on PdaNet icon "Connect" on your PC (in the task tray in right bottom corner)

Done !

Novices also may not know that these applications are free for 1 month for both secure and regular unsecure http/https connections. Then if you need https you have to pay one time fee ($10 or $18) which will work on one phone and several PC. Just a regular http stays free.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frag2:
not a question about whatever that pending exchange autosync thing going on with windows live but is anyone experiencing this issue as well with hotmail on Froyo.

Basically, all "read" 25 emails shown in the default email app becomes unread periodically. pre-Froyo, it was fine but after upgrade, it does this sporadically.

anyone with suggestions?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samagon:
Happened to me on Sunday morning 4am :-(

No idea how to fix, but i'll be watching this thread with hopeful anticipation.
[Desire General] WM_Manu:
delete thread please...
[Desire General] stupid3ish:
Search the forums for a similar thread.

Most people will mock you for asking a question like this, as the WinMo OS is slow and bloated.

All down to personal preference though.

But if you want a WinMo OS, buy a WinMo phone
[Desire General] kevinlow:
no offense..but u can try to get a hd2..

there s no point porting a windows to desire..
[Desire General] MightySashiman:
Now why the hell would anyone lose their time trying to do that ?

Orange dude > XD
[Desire General] nike100:
WinMo on HTC Desire

It may sound funny to many members of this forum, but sometimes it comes down to personal preference. I own a Touch HD for the last 20 months and want to upgrade. The next decent option is HD2, but its size is a problem. HD2 is good if you watch a lot of movies, videos on it, but otherwise it is too big for daily use. HTC Desire is closest to Touch HD in terms of size and has much better processor.

Over the years I have paid for and collected different medical softwares which can be utilised if I just uninstall from my old device and re-register with my new device. Therefore instead of going through the same process of finding/buying new softwares for Android based Desire, I would also prefer HTC Desire running on WinMo.
[Desire General] donald-c:
WinMo cant be ported to the Desire anyway because its not open source.

I miss some things about it on my old Diamond, was a lot easier to customise, no bootloops from flashing a wrong theme for the ROM your using.

Then again Android is much faster and nicer in general so I'm glad I made the switch :)
[HTC Aria Android Development] BatteriesIncluded:
Whoa! Just what I needed. Many have come before you and remained silent so thanks for putting this together. I have been reading for a week now in preparation of purchasing an Aria and it just shipped from Amazon today. Now, I'm psyched!:D
[HTC Aria Android Development] unteagle:
this is amazing, i had literally just done the unrevoked thing and had no idea what to do next, and then all of the sudden this thread pops up and helped A LOT

perfect timing
[HTC Aria Android Development] asiancuta:
glad to help :)

the experienced users were right that's it's simple if you KNOW what you're doing. just the answers/instructions were vague on exactly how.
[HTC Aria Android Development] unteagle:
ok, now how do i access clockwork? do i have to restart while holding the volume and power buttons or is there something im missing?

also, is there a way to move the apps to the sd card?
[HTC Aria Android Development] asiancuta:
Power down your phone, than hold down the volume down button and power button. In the fastboot menu push volume down till Recovery is highlighted and push the power button to select. 5 seconds later it'll load into clockwork

And I have yet to try the SD card app method
[HTC Aria Android Development] unteagle:
thanks, hopefully someone will find out how to install apps to the sd card soon, it would save a lot of space
[HTC Aria Android Development] tbsavga:
I certainly appreciate your help here. I am now running the liberated 005 on my Aria. Still want to make the jump to 2.2 :D
[HTC Aria Android Development] andoh:
Not to be rude, but we really shouldn't keep posting new instruction threads, they generally confuse people, and attn1 already mentioned this method.
[HTC Aria Android Development] uhhhyeahhh:
new here. thanks for the step by step!

all was running fine up till the point where the program was rebooting my phone... but after the phone reboot and is running fine... it still say it's "waiting for reboot..." so... i try to start over and now it says that it's "waiting for device"...

but i've already installed and uninstalled the HTC sync for aria. please help!
[HTC Aria Android Development] asiancuta:
yeah, but it took me over an hour and going through pages of forum posts before realizing i needed to install HTC Sync and uninstall it so that i could have all the drivers i needed and no issues of programs trying to access the USB port. this saves some newbs a lil headache. that's all i'm trying to do.
[HTC Aria Android Development] asiancuta:
just plug the phone back in and let it run the Unrevoked again. i ran into the same issue and thought i might have rebooted too soon through clockwork.
[HTC Aria Android Development] MotorHeadCG:
Thank you for this. I tried to root my phone the other way and could never get my phone to be seen by my comp.
[HTC Aria Android Development] beazie0885:
can anyone tell me why the link to unrevoked.com/#aria wont load. all i get is the the home page where you select your phone. down at the bottom of the screen it says errors on page.... so frustrating
[HTC Aria Android Development] BatteriesIncluded:
It's working for me. Try http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
[HTC Aria Android Development] beazie0885:
this is exactly what i needed! i have read and read (and tried) other methods, which may be the same in a sence, but i have never got it to work. i am in the process of installing the liberated rom as we speak. much props to you asiancuta for putting out a great step by step guide. and as always props to attn1 for making this possible.

edit: keep getting error at line 7 and installation aborted. phone is pretty much screwed. i can keep getting back into clockwork but dont know what to do from there. phone wont boot up either
[HTC Aria Android Development] asiancuta:
Odd. Never had that happen. In the install zip from SD card menu try selecting Signature Verification method is off and try that.

Also make sure you reboot the phone after rooting just in case.
[HTC Aria Android Development] tpbklake:
If you followed the instructions, you can use ClockworkMod to restore your 'nandroid' backup.
[HTC Aria Android Development] beazie0885:
Found out what the problem was. At least I think. When I formatted my SD card(trying other methods), I lost all the default folders. So I created a "downloads" folder and put the liberated Rom in it. Therefore I was getting an error message. I nand restored, moved the Rom out of the dl folder, and just put the zip file on the SD card. Not in a folder. Then proceeded with the instructions and worked just fine. Thx everyone. Now I'm rooted and flashed my first Rom (at least on android)
[HTC Aria Android Development] toxickiss27:
This helped me so much! Thank you!
[HTC Aria Android Development] pvillasuso:
Hi guys,

I'm stuck here , any clue ?

Waited 10min and nothing !

Should I reboot , to see if I did fine ?
[HTC Aria Android Development] RavenZwei:
First, I would like to say thank you for this post. I'd been looking over and over the root guides I had found, and, while it seemed easy enough, I just wasn't grasping it for some reason. One look through your guide here, and I knew exactly what I was doing.

I am running into an issue at this point though. On step two, when I follow the guide to install HBOOT, I get an error when I try to update the drivers. Specifically it says...

Windows for driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it.

Android Bootloader Interface

A problem was encountered while attempting to add the drive to the store.

Any ideas on how to get passed this point? Possible fixes?
[HTC Aria Android Development] asiancuta:
not quite sure. never ran into that message. if all else fails, unplug your phone and restart the process if needed. as long as you followed the instructions to install the HBOOT drivers to the T, and you installed than uninstalled HTC Sync, the whole process should run smoothly.

not an expert on this whole android thing and not quite sure. :\
[HTC Aria Android Development] asiancuta:
not quite with this either. :\ make sure you installed HBOOT usb drivers completely to the T with the instructions provided by Unrevoked's website, by checking with the method near the end of their steps.

if anything...restart this whole process step by step, is the best i can tell you.

i just only gathered what i got from the forums, did the process, and when everything worked fine for me, i placed the process in this post exactly how i went through with it.

hopefully one of the regs/experts can help.
[HTC Aria Android Development] cnflemon:
How is this done for Mac OSX
[HTC Aria Android Development] asiancuta:
MacOS should have all the drivers required already. So rooting would only require you to start Unrevoked and plugging your phone up to your mac.

There is a YouTube video of this process via mac
[HTC Aria Android Development] pvillasuso:
Fustraded !

This is so fustrating ! :D

When unrevoked message > waiting for boot appears ! The phone does reboot but it continues to load the OS ..

I would expect to stay @ bootloader "flashing" because the next unrevoked message its > flashing recovery image . Do not touch your Phone .. 7 mins later nothing happens , and message stays there ! and the phone OS is UP !

What am I missing here ? :(

All drivers are fine ! all settings good , CHARGE ONLY , DEBUG , etc !

Tried with two dif PC's , with two dif cables ! dif USB ports, and same results ...

EDIT : 24hrs later ... I HAVE ROOT ! this was PAINFULL !
[HTC Aria Android Development] Aphox:
HTC Sync w/rooted Aria?

I'm about to start rooting my Aria but I wanted to know first if:

Will I still be able to use HTC Sync to install apps onto my Aria once its rooted?

I know that I'll be able to install apps through other means but I really like the convenience of using the Sideloader version of HTC Sync to install them.
[HTC Aria Android Development] Rudreax:
You can use HTC Sync afterward to sideload apps to the phone. It would be great if someone else can confirm this as well.

It's obvious, but I guess I'll add that this method works with Windows 7 as well.
[HTC Aria Android Development] elbywan_kenobe:
Ropted and flashed Attn1's 03 ROM a few hrs ago, great stuff. Smooth as ever. Thanks much for the easy walk-through. I just came from an HTC Fuze. This is ten times better.
[HTC Aria Android Development] BatteriesIncluded:
What did you do to finally get it to work?
[HTC Aria Android Development] Freshtojeff:
Thanks! Im going to be getting my Aria this morning (finally) Hopefully I dont run to any problems using windows 7.
[HTC Aria Android Development] pvillasuso:
Unistalled everything related to drivers , or adb stuff !

Downloaded fresh drivers from SDK , I think the problem was : using an older SDK version ( that I used with my Nexus One ) !

ps. I never used the HTC Sync drivers , to make this work !

Took me so long ( 1 day ) to make this work ... :D
[HTC Aria Android Development] asiancuta:
glad to see you finally figured it out :)
[HTC Aria Android Development] jackbandit73:
Just got my Aria a few hours ago. I followed this guide word for word and now I have a bloat free phone. thanks!
[HTC Aria Android Development] Stern Panda:
Managed to root but unable to flash the rom from the sd card. Tried both liberated_aria_b003_signed.zip and liberated_aria_b005_signed.zip

Followed the steps and after:

"5. now select Install Zip from SD Card. Use the volume buttons and Power button (select) and navigate to Attn1's Rom zip file. select it. don't let the warning scare you too much. his Rom is LEGIT and 110% working select yes and watch the quick install process."

The process only lasts a few seconds after I confirm that I want to install then I get returned to the ClockworkMod's main menu with no joy. I've retraced the steps but seem to be too close to see what I am missing.
[HTC Aria Android Development] pvillasuso:
Turn off

Take out the battery

Put it back ! :D ( so obvious )

Boot @ recovery and continue the steps from there !

Good luck bro ...